Immigration News Coverage

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Entrepreneurs …

11/10/10 | Slate | Why the U.S. needs a new visa for foreigners who want to start businesses here. Reid might be wise to push the Startup Visa Act, legislation that creates renewable, two-year EB-5 visas for entrepreneurs with at least $100,000 in venture capital or super angel backing (as part of at least $250,000 in equity financing). | Read the story

Immigration reform should stay on front burner

11/04/10 | San Francisco Chronicle | The irony of anti-immigration sentiment, which fears a loss of jobs for Americans if more immigrant workers enter the United States, is that it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart. | Read the story

When Us versus Them isn’t enough: Race-baiting flops as campaign tactic

11/03/10 | Washington Post | Among the silver linings for Democrats -- and society, really -- in the massive victories won by Republicans yesterday is that there is a very clear price to pay for exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment for political purposes. | Read the story

Will Latinos swing the West to Democrats?

11/03/10 | Washington Post | As the Western returns come in tonight, look out for the possibility of a Latino surprise. Matt Barreto, who does the LatinoDecisions tracking poll, told me that Latino turnout is running higher than expected and going even more to the Democrats than it did in 2008, when it was key for Barack Obama. | Read the story

Proud to support the rule of law and immigration, too (Rep. Luis Gutierrez)

10/29/10 | The Hill | One of the reasons we have not made progress in reforming our immigration system is that one side of the debate thinks of itself as the law and order side and frames those of us who have proposed comprehensive immigration reform as opposed to the rule of law. That shuts down the debate and makes it harder to arrive at a compromise, and it doesn't happen to be true, either. | Read the story

Political ads: Fear and loathing on immigration

10/28/10 | CNN | Appeals heard on the campaign trail this year are inflammatory and move the immigration issue in the wrong direction. They are based on erroneous assumptions and misguided arguments. These claims play to popular fears and emotions rather than reasoned debate over the controversy. | Read the story

Grass-roots immigration reform

10/27/10 | Los Angeles Times | Fundamental change usually proceeds from the bottom up...As a Times/USC poll reported Sunday, nearly half of California's likely voters have a favorable view of immigrants, including those without papers. | Read the story

Don’t ‘Don’t Vote’

10/21/10 | Los Angeles Times | Latinos are being targeted with a lie: that the best strategy to achieve their goal is to stop participating in the democratic process. But that approach cannot and will not work. No group in the United States has ever forwarded its political agenda by auto-disenfranchisement. | Read the story

Fear and Loathing in Nevada

10/20/10 | New York Times | Sharron Angle did not show up at the huge Tea Party Express rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. But the event was almost entirely in support of her and the divisive, anti-immigrant platform she has promoted in her accelerating drive to replace Senator Harry Reid. | Read the story

A challenging time for Hispanics in an anti-diversity climate

10/17/10 | Star Ledger | There’s been little sign of greater understanding of Spanish-speaking people and their cultures by those who most need to get the message. Our American heritage of diversity is being swamped by a tidal wave of ignorance and hate. | Read the story

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